Bridge CC will not recognize my external hard drive

[jmczaj]

Does anyone have a solution to Bridge CC not recognizing external hard drives?  I have tried holding down the option+command+shift keys when opening Bridge and resetting everything.  I have also made sure there are no updates.  I have no problem with the external drive in Lightroom or Photoshop, only Bridge is the problem.  I am on a Mac.

[Theresa J]

Is the external drive mounted? Can you see it in the Finder? Try dragging the mounted drive icon to Bridge in the Doc. That should take Bridge to the drive.

[Randy_Cates]

Your solution doesn't work.

[Mercy5D55]

Thankyou !!!

[DeusMerdaeEst]

Same problem here. Restarting did not help, manually dragging the drive icon to Bridge in the dock did.

[Randy_Cates]

Same thing here. Bridge 2021 won't show external drive content.

[sharonpacker@mac.com]

Same here.  My external drives are mounted and disply but Bridge 2021 will not acknowledge their existence.  I cannot import photos from my card reader using Bridge either.  I have to select all, drop and drag photos into a folder.  At that point I can start to view photos for deleting with Bridge until it freezes.  I've been unable to batch rename with Bridge because it freezes.  I so wish I had not deleted Bridge 2020.  Bridge 2021 is worthless.

[DarlaDV]

Assuming this is going to gary_sc.  THANK YOU!!!!!!  

[gary_sc · Accepted solution]

Go to your System Preferences and select Security and Privacy (found in the top section). Now click on the Privacy setting (last tab). Now click on the lock on the bottom left and provide your Administrator code. Now select the Full Disk Access option and click on the "+" symbol. This will bring up the standard Mac Open window and let you add any application you want or need to have full access. Look for Bridge, select it, it will now appear in that window and make sure it's checked. Next go to the Files and Folders option and do the same thing as above (although there's nothing to check, just add. Close everything down and see if that makes it all work.

Please let me know

[sharonpacker@mac.com]

Thank you so much!  Worked like a charm.

[Wild Wanderer]

Thank you, worked perfectly 

[julesp4263789]

Hi, The files and folders is not showing, any ideas?

Thank you!

[Sue Leonard]

worked for me after installing Bridge 2021 just today.  It was driving me crazy.  Thank you so much.

[pilarphsmith]

Thank you! Worked!

[AmmanielHintza]

Thanks gary

[Jessika77]

Thank you SO SO MUCH! worked perfectly!

[Mercy5D55]

Thanyou so much

[amyd17318815]

Any suggestions for how to tackle this if you are on a PC?

[Shadonna5CBA]

Worked perfectly!  Thank you so much!!

[christyp74982763]

Worked perfectly.  Thanks!

[tammyc46125181]

Worked for me! Thank you!

[fijigirlann]

Gary

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[HER PERSPECTIVE PHOTOG]

JUST SAVED MY LIFE!!!

[fredf21618631]

Thank you.. that worked. You saved me a lot of time and headache.

You never know what to expect with these updates. Sometimes, all the presets and settings disappear leaving you to spend hours trying to recall what was what. 

[lionsbridge]

Terrific!